Could you have gotten a worse NCAA tournament? I think I rather would have had the BCS version. At least with that, the controversy by itself is exciting. This tournament has lacked Cinderellas as much as it has lacked interest.

So far, there have been 56 games played in the tournament. Of those, just eight of them were decided by a single possession. So 48 out of 56 games lacked an exciting conclusion. Sure, there were plenty of good games that weren’t decided by less than three points, but this tournament is supposed to be about “madness” and excitement. Overall, it’s lacked both.

The Sweet 16 round was particularly disappointing. Of the eight games played Thursday and Friday, the average margin of victory was 16.1 points, and just two of the games were even decided by single digits.

On the bright side, of the eight teams remaining, you have four 1-seeds, two 2-seeds, and two 3-seeds. If you’re going to do a postseason, at least make it where the best teams are vying for the championship (you hear that football!). The games may not have had exciting conclusions thus far, but that is because the good teams are playing like they are supposed to.

This means two things: 1) CBS is not enjoying this tournament so far; and 2) we are all set up for seven great games (or at least matchups) to finish this thing off.

And most importantly, by the time the national championship game is set, it’s baseball season. So no matter how bad the rest of the tournament is, sports matter again in one week.

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